本章重点是文本分析、衔接、衔接链、话语标记、小句关系以及体裁等。本章难点是文本分析和话语分析的区别、小句关系，重点掌握语法衔接、语义衔接和连接并完成课后相关练习。

Chapter 8 text analysis: exploring principles of text construction

 Discourse and text

   Definition of text and discourse

   Text analysis

 Cohesion and coherence

   Grammatical cohesion

    Reference: personal reference, demonstrative reference and comparative reference

    Substitution

    Ellipsis

   Lexical cohesion: Reiteration & Collocation.

   Conjunction

    Addition

    The adversative relation

    The causal relations

    The temporal relation

 Cohesive chains: Identity chain and similarity chain.

 Discourse makers: A word or phrase that is relatively syntax-independent.

 Clause relations: Taxis (dependency) & logico-semantic relation.

 Basic textual patterns: The global level and the local level

 Genre and text structure

   Genre is mainly determined by purpose or goal of a text.

   A text is a unit of language in use.

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